The Joshua Lederberg Papers

This is one of Lederberg's earliest serious correspondence. Jack Edman was Lederberg's closest friend and one of several
classmates of his from Stuyvesant High School who later served in World War 2 in the Signal Corps. The format is that of a
"V-gram", a cannonical mode of letter-writing during the war. For security and to save shipping weight, they were
often microfilmed.

KW: V-mail;
To save shipping space during the war; and to provide backup in
case a ship was lost, "V-mail" was the conventional mode of letter\
writing.. Scripts were microfilmed, the films sea-ported and
reprinted the other side. Not too legible, so see accompanying
transcript.
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